Research Unit for Early-Modern Natural Law

Since 2016, the Research Centre for Early Modern Natural Law has been coordinating ongoing research on natural law in the early modern period and initiating new projects. The time frame under consideration extends from the Reformation to the first decades of the 19th century, with the main focus on the heyday of natural law in the era after Hugo Grotius and in particular on the academic institutionalisation of natural law throughout Europe. This focus is reflected in the research network and main project 'Natural Law 1625-1850. An International Research Project', which we run in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.